The Great Pacific Garbage Patch
Actualizado el 14 nov. 2009
Plastic
trash has made its way to the Pacific Ocean and its collected in
massive amounts out in the middle of a 10 million square mile area known
as the Pacific Gyre (pronounced G-I-R-E) which is also known as "The
Great Pacific Garbage Patch". The Gyre is a large clockwise spinning
vortex that basically sucks everything into itself and because plastic
is not biodegradable and cannot be broken down naturally it will just
continue to circle the Gyre for decades maybe even centuries. This
plastic soup is wreaking unimaginable havoc on the area's ecosystems.
More than 1 million sea birds die from ingesting the plastic thinking
that it's food. Turtles are choking on plastic shopping bags, which
look amazingly like jelly fish, the main prey of turtles. The answer to
stopping this madness is to STOP USING SO MUCH FUCKIN' PLASTIC. And for
the plastic that you do use, try to recycle it or better yet, REUSE it!
trash has made its way to the Pacific Ocean and its collected in
massive amounts out in the middle of a 10 million square mile area known
as the Pacific Gyre (pronounced G-I-R-E) which is also known as "The
Great Pacific Garbage Patch". The Gyre is a large clockwise spinning
vortex that basically sucks everything into itself and because plastic
is not biodegradable and cannot be broken down naturally it will just
continue to circle the Gyre for decades maybe even centuries. This
plastic soup is wreaking unimaginable havoc on the area's ecosystems.
More than 1 million sea birds die from ingesting the plastic thinking
that it's food. Turtles are choking on plastic shopping bags, which
look amazingly like jelly fish, the main prey of turtles. The answer to
stopping this madness is to STOP USING SO MUCH FUCKIN' PLASTIC. And for
the plastic that you do use, try to recycle it or better yet, REUSE it!
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